How is a Statement of Cash Flows audited?

Foot all balances - Check the Math

Trace Cash Flow items to other Financial Statements

Under the Indirect Method what must be disclosed on a Statement of Cash Flows?

Interest Paid

Income Taxes Paid

Non-cash Transactions

Cash and Cash Equivalents Definitions

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Under the Direct Method what must be disclosed on a Statement of Cash Flows?

Results as if you had used Indirect Method

Non-cash Transactions

Cash and Cash Equivalents Definition

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What are Subsequent Events and what do they require?

Subsequent events occur after the Balance Sheet Date but before the audit report is issued.

Auditor needs to make inquiries and assess if they affect the audit report.

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What should occur if the audit report has already been issued and the auditor becomes aware of a situation that was present as of the Balance Sheet date (a subsequent event)?

If audit report has already been issued and auditor becomes aware of a situation that was present as of the BS date client should issue a disclosure to financial statement users and/or revise the financial statement.

Regulatory agencies might need to get involved under some circumstances.

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What should an auditor do if they discover they have forgotten to perform a substantive procedure?

If auditor discovers that they forgot to perform a substantive procedure auditor should determine if other substantive procedures performed served as a substitute.

Otherwise support for their audit opinion could be jeopardized.

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When are Analytical Procedures required?

REQUIRED When planning the audit (preliminary)

REQUIRED When reviewing the audit (final)

Analytical procedures may be also performed optionally along with the substantive testing.

Use of Analytical Procedures in the audit must be documented.

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How do Analytical Procedures assist the auditor?

Helps the Auditor:

Determine if Management Assertions are reasonable

Develop audit plan

Develop some expectations about the financial statement and hopefully bring to light any glaring errors on financial statement

What type of procedure is a Budget vs. Actual comparison?

Budget vs. Actual comparisons are Analytical Procedures.

List Common Types of Analytical Procedures

Ratio analysis

Budget vs. Actual comparison

Comparison of data between years

Use of non-financial data to predict expected values for financial data

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How do management assertions affect the audit?

Management assertions help the auditor to plan the audit and select substantive tests.

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What assertions do auditors test?

Presentation - Cutoff Classification - Is it in the right period and category?Existence/ Occurrence - Did it happen? Does it exist?Rights & Obligations - Does the company own them?Completeness - Was everything recorded?Valuation - Are they worth the amount at which they are recorded?

(PERCV)

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What assertions are tests for transaction classes?

Occurrence

Cutoff

Classification

Completeness

Accuracy

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For which assertions are disclosures tested?

Occurrence

Completeness

Classification

Accuracy

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Is testing the validity of direct evidence a basic audit procedure?

No it is an extended procedure.

For example you don't have to take a loan covenant document and go search out that it's a valid loan covenant. Instead you consider the source - if it's externally prepared it's more persuasive.

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How are Management Estimates audited?

First and foremost you need to understand management's rationale and methods for developing estimates before you can judge reasonableness.

Next Auditor should formulate their own opinion on what a good estimate should be and compare it.

Finally determine if subsequent events affect the estimate.

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Whose property are audit documentation (audit workpapers)? In what form must they be?

Audit workpapers are the property of the auditor.

They can be paper or electronic.

They must include a WRITTEN audit program (either paper or electronic).

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What is the Current File?

Information pertaining to the current year's audit.

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What is the Permanent File?

Information used for this audit and future audits which is updated as needed.

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How long must audit workpapers be maintained?

Must be kept for 5 years after the audit release date or according to regulations whichever is longer.

Must be kept for 7 years under PCAOB Audit

PCAOB audits also require an Engagement Completion Document

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What is the primary requirement for audit workpapers besides being written?

Any experienced auditor should be able to look at your work and understand what you did.

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How should documents added to work papers be treated?

If further documents are added to the work papers after the audit report is issued it must be documented as to who added them why they were added and any effects on the audit report.

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How should documents removed from workpapers be treated?

After the audit report is released the firm has 60 days to subtract from the file.

You can still add to the file if you document it but you cannot delete any information after 60 days.

Note - for SEC auditors the PCAOB only allows deletions up to 45 days after issuance of the audit report.

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What does an audit procedures should be applied to Required Supplementary Information?

The auditor should make management inquiries about RSI and obtain written assertions regarding its preparation. The auditor should compare the RSI to the rest of the financial statements to ensure consistency.